> Ryan Reich wrote:> > Harald Dunkel wrote:> >> >>> >> I am interested in the module file names. 'cat /proc/modules'> >> should return the correct module names, but for some modules> >> (like uhci_hcd vs uhci-hcd.ko) '_' and '-' are messed up.> >> >> > According to the modprobe man page, the two symbols are interchangeable.> >> I know. But this requires some very ugly workarounds outside> of module-init-tools. For example, if you want to check> whether a module $module_name has already been loaded, you> cannot use>> grep -q "^${module_name} " /proc/modules>> Instead you have to use a workaround like>> x="`echo $module_name | sed -e 's/-/_/g'`"> cat /proc/modules | sed -e 's/-/_/g' | grep -q "^${x} ">> This is inefficient and error-prone.>> Maybe somebody has another idea for the workaround,> but I like the first version.

Well, you can shorten it by using 'tr':

cat /proc/modules | tr _ - | grep -q "^${module_name} "/proc/modules uses the '_' and I suppose your problem is that your module namelist uses the '-', so this solves both at once.